𝐀𝐁𝐔 𝐈𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐍

Software Engineer || Data Scientist || Husband || Father . لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله #HALAMADRID

[𝐀𝐁𝐔 𝐈𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐍 @DeenyPro]

Alhamdulillah we’ve been blessed with two little babies. My wife gave birth to twins(girls) this afternoon. Both babies and the mother are in good health.

[Karounwi Adini @KarounwiAdini]

Qatar,
Kuwait,
Brunei,
Saudi Arabia,
Oman,
Malaysia,
Indonesia,
UAE,
Morocco,
Tunisia,
Maldives.

Abbasid 9th century
Mansa Musa's 14 century,
Mughal Empire's 17th century.

Read newspapers and books.

Stop coming online and displaying ignorant arrogance.

[𝐀𝐁𝐔 𝐈𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐍 @DeenyPro]

@abdool_moh Messi fans has been supporting Argentina against Nigeria in world cup matches not friendlies. Some kids were flogged in my area for celebrating his goal against Nigeria.
So calm down, i will do Suiii with him when he score 😂😂😂

[Gitz  @Gitz__]

Africans would have hate watched Morocco during the World Cup but South Africa volunteered for the position.

[𝐀𝐁𝐔 𝐈𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐍 @DeenyPro]

@blaq_en_belle Idiot

[T ☪︎ @Prince__Talal]

Look what the US has done…

making us agree with an Arsenal fan

[Eric Boateng 🇬🇭🇩🇪 @ericboatenggh]

Mexico vs South Africa:

If we support south Africa they'll say we are taking their jobs.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

We don't want your hope again. The one you've given us is enough.

You've tried. Go home and rest. Let another person work

[P.haraoh 👑 @Ugochukwu96_]

The Profile of Nigerian Politician:

Kids — UK, USA, Canada
Pilgrimage — Saudi
Shopping — Paris, Milan
Houses — Abuja, Lagos, Dubai, London
Bank — Switzerland
Hospital — London, India
Holidays — UAE or USA
Fornication —Maldives, Mykonos
Checkups — “Routine” trips abroad
Constituency — Seen only during elections or primaries
Promises — “We are working on it”
Scandals — “Politically motivated"

Light — 24/7 generator (NEPA is for vibes)
Security — More guards than a bank vault
Side hustle — Government contracts
Cars — Bulletproof convoy, sirens screaming

Country — Managed remotely.

They d!e abroad and are brought back home for burial, Nigeria —Their cemetery

But when it’s time to campaign:
“My people… I feel your pain.” 🙂

If you like use your head this coming election or they use it for you as usual 🫵.

[⚚ Mr Blur 🫆🍁 𝝅 @real_khanzunlah]

Pharmacy no get septrin but dem get fresh bread.
Wallahi Una no serious for this country

[Peacock @dawisu]

By this your kakawa logic, should we also draw a straight line from almajiri to fraudsters, armed robbers, kidnappers, baby factories or cultists in Southern Nigeria?

I'm always amazed at how some people can be highly educated yet profoundly ignorant on certain subjects. So permit me to offer a brief lesson to you, Mr Generalizer!

Almajirai, terrorists, and bandits are not the same thing. Conflating them only demonstrates a lack of understanding of Nigeria's security challenges!

Firstly, not every almajiri becomes a menace to society. My father was an almajiri in Hardawa, Bauchi State over 90yrs ago, where he memorized the entire Qur'an. The almajiri system of his time was very different from what we see today.

I also had a young almajiri who helped with household chores many years ago. He later moved to Kaduna, found legitimate work, and eventually became a successful businessman. Years later, he visited me, I didn't even recognize him when he bowed down to greet me till he reminded me who he was.

My point is that, almajiranci does not automatically produce criminals! Does this mean I support the current almajiri system? Certainly not. It is in desperate need of major reform. But acknowledging its flaws is different from falsely claiming that every almajiri is a terrorist or bandit in waiting.

Secondly, terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and Lakurawa are primarily driven by ideology. Their recruitment cuts across different social and economic classes. Their ranks have included university graduates, professionals, clerics, and people with no formal education. Yes, some almajirai may have been recruited, but so have many others from entirely different backgrounds.

Thirdly, banditry is a different phenomenon altogether. Most bandit groups are driven by criminal enterprise who are mostly from the fulani ethnic group, who engage in kidnapping for ransom, cattle rustling, extortion, and territorial control. Their motivations, structures, and recruitment patterns are fundamentally different from those of ideological terrorist groups. I can almost guarantee you that none of these Fulani bandits are almajiris.

Nigeria's insecurity is a complex problem with roots in poverty, weak governance, corruption, unemployment, communal conflicts, porous borders, criminal economies, and extremist ideologies. Reducing all of that to "almajiranci" is not analysis, it is oversimplification!

Before making sweeping generalization, it helps to understand the subject matter. Complex problems deserve informed discussions, not convenient stereotypes!

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk!

[imerm_jr @imerm_jr]

Flew to Lagos to meet a vendor… turns out he’s also a middleman, meeting is 9:30am and I’ve been calling since morning, phone on DND. If this guy no pick, I might just enter one of those cow trucks heading back to Kano😂😂😂

[𝐀𝐁𝐔 𝐈𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐍 @DeenyPro]

Mass wedding is a bad government policy whether we like it or not. There’s no sustenance plan for the families after the wedding. The number of divorce cases and divorcees we have in Kano are enough we don’t need extra.

[Engr Yasir MNSE 🏗 @oil_shaeikh]

The main reason why southerners frown at Mass wedding by some governors in the North is not because of any genuine concern but only that they feel it gives the north a population advantage over them.
How many percent of the Northern population stems from Mass wedding ? A very insignificant number.
Go deal with your problems and leave people to their own.
Population is never a disadvantage.

[𝐀𝐁𝐔 𝐈𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐍 @DeenyPro]

A man that cannot fund his wedding or a good percentage of it has no business getting married in 2026 because of our economic reality.
This mass wedding madness needs to stop.

[Ziyad Yakubu @Ziyad_yakubu]

The politicians from southern Nigeria need to be deeply studied.

In fact, a whole department in our universities should be set up just to study those people.

Because the way they have managed to convince many southern youths, some of the most intelligent youths in all of Africa, that their real problem is not the politicians who govern them, but “the North,” is almost a political miracle.

That the reason a pothole in Abakpa Nike is not fixed is because of Hisbah breaking alcohol bottles in Kano.

That the reason they have youth unemployment and underemployment is because of a Sharia court in Sokoto.

That the reason their electricity is unstable, state hospitals are weak, courts are slow, police are corrupt, refineries are not working, and local industries are dying is because the North is too religious.

Not the governors.

Not the senators.

Not the local government chairmen.

Not the contractors who collected money and disappeared.

Not the political families who have controlled the same states for decades.

Not the state assemblies that behave like extensions of the governor’s office.

No. The problem is somehow Kano Hisbah.

This is the genius of southern political deflection.

They have built a system where they can fail locally and outsource the blame nationally.

Meanwhile, the same southern politicians control budgets, collect allocations, appoint commissioners, award contracts, borrow money, tax citizens, control state institutions, and still somehow escape the anger of the same people they govern.

That is the part that fascinates me.

The North has many problems and deserves serious criticism. Nobody honest can deny that. But the way northern dysfunction has been turned into a universal excuse for southern elite failure is a political miracle, second only to democracy itself.

The governor no longer needs to explain why the roads are bad.

The senator no longer needs to explain what he has done.

The local government chairman no longer needs to show where the money went.

The people simply look northward and rage.

And the politicians smile.

As a southern youth, know this: every minute you spend shouting about Hisbah, Sharia, almajiri, or the north is backward, is one less minute spent asking why your own state budget keeps producing nothing.

Nigerian politicians have not only failed many of their people. They have also mastered the art of giving them a convenient enemy.

This is the oldest trick in politics.

Divide the people, make them suspicious of each other, then govern both sides badly while they fight over identity.

There is nothing I would want more than a coherent Nigeria.

Notice I said coherent, not uniform.

I am not talking about this fake “One Nigeria” slogan where everyone pretends we are one people, one culture, one worldview, one moral community, and one historical experience.

That is childish.

Nigeria does not need to become one tribe.

Nigeria does not need to become one culture.

Nigeria does not need everyone to eat the same food, marry the same way, worship the same way, dress the same way, or organize society the same way.

What Nigeria needs is coherence.

A country where different regions can govern themselves according to their values, compete with each other, cooperate where necessary, and still stand together as a serious bargaining bloc in the world.

Because in the international system, small fragmented African states will be eaten alive.

So we must ask ourselves whether we can build a political arrangement where our differences do not become a weapon in the hands of failed politicians.

And this is where both sides need to hear the truth.

If you are a southern youth and you believe the North must become exactly to your taste before you can accept it as part of the political arrangement, then you are not serious.

You may not like Hisbah.

You may not like Sharia courts.

You may not like how conservative northern societies are.

You may not like the way we vote, dress, worship, marry, or organize our communities.

Fine.

But if your idea of a working Nigeria is that Kano must first become Lagos, or Sokoto must first become Enugu, or Katsina must first become Port Harcourt, then you are not yet tired of the state of Nigeria.

A coherent Nigeria must allow Kano to be Kano, Lagos to be Lagos, Enugu to be Enugu, Sokoto to be Sokoto, and Rivers to be Rivers.

What Nigeria needs is restructuring that makes every region carry more responsibility for the choices it makes.

And this is where the North itself must also face its own contradiction.

It is not enough to say, “Leave the North alone. Let the North live by its values.”

That argument only becomes serious when the North also accepts the financial responsibility that comes with political and cultural autonomy.

If the governor of Kano wants to subsidize mass weddings for 2,000 couples, that is his right. But it will make more sense if Kano is generating the money for it.

If the governor of Sokoto wants to subsidize Hajj or support pilgrims, that is his political choice. But it will carry more moral weight if Sokoto is funding it from its own productive economy.

If the governor of Zamfara wants to negotiate with bandits, grant amnesty, or offer concessions in the name of peace, that decision should be borne mainly by the people and resources of Zamfara, not hidden within the comfort of national allocation.

If Kano decides it does not want alcohol sold openly in its society, that should be its cultural and religious right. But it becomes a contradiction when the same political system benefits from VAT and federal revenue that partly comes from products and lifestyles those same states publicly reject.

This is why restructuring matters.

It protects the South from blaming the North for everything.

It protects the North from being constantly insulted for choosing its own values.

And it forces every region to face the cost of its own political choices.

Because right now, Nigeria is structured in a way that encourages hypocrisy.

Southern politicians can fail their people and blame the North.

Northern politicians can defend cultural autonomy while depending on a central pool funded by economic activities they sometimes condemn.

A serious Nigeria should say: live according to your values, but fund the consequences.

[Prof™ @OOlusore]

Bola Tinubu's Students Loan was not necessary years ago because there was no Economic Hardship of this type.

Poor Parents could still afford to send their Children to School.

Campaigning with Students Loan is a disgrace to the Education you claim to have.

[Malachy Odo II @MalachyOdo1]

Behind every useless President is a...

[Malancy @NaseerAjumawa]

There is no word in English or any other language that can justify the mass weddings sponsored by northern governors. The more you defend these irresponsible people getting married on state funds, the more stupid you sound.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

“You cannot support and defend Tinubu no matter how intelligent you are without sounding stupid.”

~ Dele Farotimi says

[valking ♔ @_VALKlNG]

The fact that we still have to convince people not to vote for Tinubu means we are in big trouble.

[Ayo @Alhajirostova]

fuel is no longer subsidized. even federal universities, which are supposed to be affordable, are now expensive. we're paying a fortune for gas. housing is out of reach for many people. security is non-existent.

so what exactly is the government doing for us?